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and may be improved for that purpose by order of the corporation of the said city.

April 20, 1818.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, instead of the compensation now allowed by law to the receivers of public moneys for the lands of the United States, they shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per centum on the moneys received, as a compensation for clerk hire, receiving, safe keeping, and transmitting, such moneys to the treasury of the United States: Provided always, That the whole amount which any receiver of public moneys shall receive under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for any one year, the sum of three thousand dollars.

. And be it further enacted, That, instead of the compensation now allowed by law, to the registers of the land offices, they shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars each, and a commission of one per centum on all the moneys expressed in the receipts by them filed and entered, and of which they shall have transmitted an account to the Secretary of the Treasury; Provided always, That the whole amount which any register of the land offices shall receive, under the provisions of this act, shall not exceed, for any one year, the sum of three thousand dollars.

April 20, 1818.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all claims under the act, entitled “,” passed on the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen, and the, passed the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, now remaining in the office of the commissioner of claims, and not acted on finally by said commissioner before the ninth of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, be, and the same are hereby, transferred to the office of the third auditor of the Treasury Department; and the said third auditor, in all adjudications upon the claims aforesaid, shall be governed, in all respects, by the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, as have heretofore been prescribed to the commissioner of claims under the above-recited acts.

. And be it further enacted, That the third auditor aforesaid, for performing the duties hereby required by him, shall be allowed and paid the sum of five hundred dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

April 20, 1818.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the powers and duties